UNIVERSITY EDITION
AVIL PUBLISHING COMPANY
PHILADELPHIA.
COPYRIGHTED 1901
BY
John D. Avil
All Rights Reserved
CONTENTS
PART I
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INTRODUCTION [ix]
ABOUT CATHERINE DE' MEDICI:
(Sur Catherine de Medicis)
PREFACE [3]
PART I. THE CALVINIST MARTYR [44]
" II. THE RUGGIERI'S SECRET [233]
" III. THE TWO DREAMS [308]
GAMBARA [327]
(Gambara)
PART II
INTRODUCTION [ix]
SERAPHITA:
(Séraphita)
I. SERAPHITUS [2]
II. SERAPHITA [22]
III. SERAPHITA—SERAPHITUS [40]
IV. THE CLOUDS OF THE SANCTUARY [82]
V. THE FAREWELL [112]
VI. THE ROAD TO HEAVEN [123]
VII. THE ASSUMPTION [134]
LOUIS LAMBERT [145]
(Louis Lambert)
THE EXILES
(Les Proscrits)
ALMAE SORORI [259]
MAÎTRE CORNÉLIUS [293]
(Maître Cornélius)
THE ELIXIR OF LIFE [359]
(L'Elixir de longue Vie)
(Translators, Clara Bell and James Waring)
ILLUSTRATIONS
PART I
QUADRANGLE OF THE COLLEGE OF VENDÔME WHERE BALZAC WAS EDUCATED [Frontispiece]
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"I AM CHAUDIEU!" [53]
PLACED HIMSELF IN FRONT OF A LOOKING-GLASS [328]
PART II
TOWER IN WHICH BALZAC PASSED MOST OF HIS TIME AT COLLEGE [164]
HE NOW SAW WITH A TERRIFIED SHUDDER THAT THERE
WAS A BRIGHT LIGHT ON THE STAIRS, AND PERCEIVED
CORNÉLIUS, IN HIS OLD DALMATIC, CARRYING HIS LAMP [324]